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Shields, Walking Has Its Benefits.
Feb. 18th, 2006 01:19 amYou know the type of shields you see on Star Trek? The ones that glow all blue and egg-shaped when hit? The thought occurs to me that it won't need to be a scientist who invents them, just someone who's tired of people getting in their personal space all the time, and not giving any room to move without walking in traffic. Yeah, I thought about that in the city today while wishing I had a shield to push people away, why do you ask? Of course, it probably will be a scientist. Just a misanthropic scientist. Hmm-bway glaven!
Although, Friday did go a long way to making amends - I'd missed the CAT bus into West Perth, so making my way from East Perth on Shanks Pony meant I was coming the other way, past one of the model shops. And in the window? Ecto-1. A completed one so no worries about putting it together or painting or anything. Die-cast metal, about 30cm long (box says it's a 1:21 scale). So, as you can guess I was rather chuffed with that find. :D (*gasp!* "I'll take that one thanks mate!")
I got on the afternoon bus at the last possible second, I took the last *full* seat available - the seat directly behind the driver (normally I'd sit down the back, but like I said, last possible second, leaping for moving vehicle type thing). It was one of the oldest buses in the fleet, so there's a window in the barrier between driver and bus, so I was able to snoop at
all the switches buttons and levers, and trying to read what was on the newer machines. This was after a morning of getting close enough under the riverside streetlights to see the yellow bands on the wings of the corellas (medium-sized white cockatoos) flying over those couple of kilometres.
Have been bossless this last week, so have been merrily left to my own devices a bit, while catching up on some library stuff (I've been told "focus on disposition", but I need to leave something for next week), like showing S the way that I do journal processing so I can "focus on disposition" (don't worry, we're like this all the time):
*sees S's incoming journal pile is done - adds more*
"GAAAWWWHH! You were waiting til I'd finished weren't you?"
"Yes. Bwahahaha!"
( Stole these from crusherdisciple ;) )
Huh... LJ is now doing an autosave of posts-in-progress now (of course, it could be something that's been around for a while, and I just never noticed the "Autosaved draft" line before).
Although, Friday did go a long way to making amends - I'd missed the CAT bus into West Perth, so making my way from East Perth on Shanks Pony meant I was coming the other way, past one of the model shops. And in the window? Ecto-1. A completed one so no worries about putting it together or painting or anything. Die-cast metal, about 30cm long (box says it's a 1:21 scale). So, as you can guess I was rather chuffed with that find. :D (*gasp!* "I'll take that one thanks mate!")
I got on the afternoon bus at the last possible second, I took the last *full* seat available - the seat directly behind the driver (normally I'd sit down the back, but like I said, last possible second, leaping for moving vehicle type thing). It was one of the oldest buses in the fleet, so there's a window in the barrier between driver and bus, so I was able to snoop at
all the switches buttons and levers, and trying to read what was on the newer machines. This was after a morning of getting close enough under the riverside streetlights to see the yellow bands on the wings of the corellas (medium-sized white cockatoos) flying over those couple of kilometres.
Have been bossless this last week, so have been merrily left to my own devices a bit, while catching up on some library stuff (I've been told "focus on disposition", but I need to leave something for next week), like showing S the way that I do journal processing so I can "focus on disposition" (don't worry, we're like this all the time):
*sees S's incoming journal pile is done - adds more*
"GAAAWWWHH! You were waiting til I'd finished weren't you?"
"Yes. Bwahahaha!"
( Stole these from crusherdisciple ;) )
Huh... LJ is now doing an autosave of posts-in-progress now (of course, it could be something that's been around for a while, and I just never noticed the "Autosaved draft" line before).
